I am trying to use grep with the pwd
command.
So, if i enter pwd
, it shows me something like:
/home/hrq/my-project/
But, for purposes of a script i am making, i need to use it with grep, so it only prints what is after hrq/
, so i need to hide my home folder always (the /home/hrq/
) excerpt, and show only what is onwards (like, in this case, only my-project
).
Is it possible?
I tried something like
pwd | grep -ov 'home'
, since i saw that the "-v" flag would be equivalent to the NOT operator, and combine it with the "-o" only matching flag. But it didn't work.
Given:
$ pwd
/home/foo/tmp
$ echo "$PWD"
/home/foo/tmp
Depending on what it is you really want to do, either of these is probably what you really should be using rather than trying to use grep:
$ basename "$PWD"
tmp
$ echo "${PWD#/home/foo/}"
tmp